main ingredient; main component
therapeutic agent; remedy; medicine; drug; cure
self-healing; spontaneous recovery
establishment; founding; setting (a record)
family; clan; sect; school; group of related sumo stables
circumstances; condition; to arrange; to manage; to lend money; to raise money
to occupy; to hold; to account for; to make up; to take up
Emperor Go-Shirakawa; Go-Shirakawa Tenno (1127-1192 CE, reigning: 1155-1158 CE)
Heiji era (1159.4.20-1160.1.10)
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
Goshirakawahouou (1127.10.18-1192.4.26) (ex-emperor, later monk)
marriage of convenience; marriage for political reasons
Goshirakawajoukou (retired emperor)
Emperor Takakura; Takakura Tenno (1161-1181 CE, reigning: 1168-1180 CE)
magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification
fullness; completion; enhancement; improvement; replenishment; repletion
participation in government; state councillor (in the ritsuryo system); state councilor; vice-minister (early Meiji period); Cabinet Councillor (1937-1943); Cabinet Councilor
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945); Minister of the Interior (669-1868)
medium-ranked councillor in the Department of State
third rank (in the Japanese court system); Trinity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to do ... completely; to do ... entirely
exceptional; unusual; extraordinary; unprecedented; singular
gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees
pleasant; agreeable; comfortable; refreshing
to place (in relation to the whole); to rank; to position; to locate
upper stream; upper course; upstream; upper classes
(arch.) beast (esp. one used for its meat, such as a boar or a deer); hunting (of animals such as boar, deer, etc.)
plot; intrigue; scheme; conspiracy; agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act
mountain villa; mountain retreat; mountain cottage
overthrow; defeat; bringing down; knockdown
discovery (of a plot, misdeed, etc.); detection; exposure; disclosure
leader; central personage
fabrication; put-up job; trumped-up story; frame-up; hoax
one large ...; a great ...
to not know what to do with; to be at a loss with; to have difficulty with; to be put out
Enryaku era (782.8.19-806.5.18)